Gates' Replacement says Microsoft Must Simplify

Javaman59 writes "This article in The Australian newspaper describes the background and the agenda of Ray Ozzie, Bill Gates' replacement as chief architect at Microsoft. The creator of Lotus Notes, he's a high-calibre technologist. From the article: 'Ray's a programmer's programmer .. He's much closer to an uber-engineer, whereas Bill hasn't been a programmer for a number of years.' Ozzie is also driving Microsoft to simplify its software: 'Complexity kills .. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.' He's not the only brilliant programmer in the world, but he does have Microsoft's resources behind him."

Comments

Re:Good plan!

[ratboy666]

You are nuts. There are reasons why folks use Unix, TSO and DOS: most applications are textual in nature and benefit from that environment. Windows is not a good platform for building a text interface. Hell, it wasn't even a good platform for building a graphical interface. It did the job it was supposed to: provide an interface to the IBM PC hardware, but that is about it.

Re:He is not a programmer's programmer

[anaesthetica]

I say put Aero on top of Windows 95. Now we're rocking simplicity!!

Your proposal doesn't go far enough. If we dropped Aero on top of MSDOS, then we'd be seeing some progress!